Trousers hanger



June 2l, 1938. H, F SAENGER 2,121,75

TROUSERS HANGER Filed July 9, 1937 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 vInventor June 2l, 1938. H, F SAENGER l u 2,121,715

TROUSERS HANGER Filed July 9, 1937y 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 21, 193s UNITED STATES PATENT orifice TROUSERS HANGER.

Hugo F. Saenger, Milwaukee, Wis. Application July 9, 1937, Serial No. 152,832

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to trousers hangers and has for its prime object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eilicient hanger adapted to engage and support the trousers by their cuil's 5 whereby the trousers will be held in a natural position and will retain their crease.

Another important object of the invention re#- sides in the provision of a hangerof this nature which is extremely simple in construction,v adaptl ed to take care of a plurality of trousers, easy to manipulate, inexpensive to manufacture, strong and durable and otherwise well adapted for the purpose for which it is designed.

With the above and numerous other objects l in view as will appear as thev description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed.

In the drawingsz- Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a hanger embodying the features of my invention.

Figure 2 is an end elevationjthereof.

`Figure 3 is a top plan View thereof.

Figure 4 is a perspective view oi oneof the' arms. 1

'Figure 5 is a perspective viewof the clamp members.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the hook.

Referring to the drawings in detail it' will be seen that there are a pair of elongated arcuated clamp plates or bars 5 the centers of which are riveted or otherwise secured as at 6 to arms l. 'I'hese arms are provided lwith side flanges 8 and 9 the latter of which overlap the former and the ilange portions at their ends which overlap are rockable on a pin portion 25 of a hook member to be presently described.

.A bail of U-shaped construction includes a straight bight I2, arms I4,.and pintles I5. The bight I2 is adapted to engage with protrusions Il formed on one arm 'I and the pin I Il with protrusions Il on the other arm.

The bail engages the arms and with the Alever element 20 engages the pin Ill and the bight portion I2 with the protrusions I1 and I 'I' respectively and can be cammed to clamp the elements 5 with the trousers or other garment as may be desired. v

. bent upon itself intermediate its ends to provide a double strand 26, one end of the wire being- 5 formed withan eye 30 and the other end of the wire being bent angularly to form the pin 25 which is inserted through openings I I in the inner ends of the anges 8 and 9 and also through'the eye 30. l0

It is thought that the construction, operation, utility and advantages of this invention will now be quite apparent to those skilled in this art without a more detailed description thereof.

The present embodiment oi' the invention has 15 been described in considerable detail merely for the purposes of exemplication since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description. y 20.

Having described the invention what is claimed as new is:-

1. A device of the class described comprising a pair oi' pivoted jaws on a garment hanger and means detachable from the jaws for clamping 25 the jaws together, said means comprising spaced abutments on the jaws, a U-shaped bail enclosing the jaws, a` cam lever pivoted to the free end of the bail and including spaced parallel cam lobes straddling one oi the jaws and a pin ex- 30 .tending between said cam lobes and selectively engageable with the abutments to retain 'the clamp in adjusted position on the jaws, the jaws including trousers engaging means.

2. A device of the class described comprising a 35 pair of pivoted jaws having spaced pivoted ends on a garment hanger and means detachable from the jaws for clamping the jaws together, the jaws including trousers engaging means, the trousers engaging means being oi.' an arcuate formation, an said hanger being in the form of a wire element of one piece bent upon itself intermediate its ends to provide a hook, one end of the wire terminating in a straight bar on which the jaws are pivoted and an eye formed on the other end of the wire 45 engaging the bar between the pivoted ends of the jaws.

, HUGO F. SAENGER.. 

